Monthly Archives: January 2006

JavaOne thoughts

Posted on January 24, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

Another year of rejections from JavaOne and I’ve finally written them back asking for comments on the selection process. The thing that is hardest to swallow about JavaOne and their selection is that the topics I submit are definitely viable … Continue reading →

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Versioning and serialization of enums

Posted on January 17, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

Versioning keeps coming up everywhere in Java. Probably because the Java language is used to run huge applications and guess what, some things change and others don’t (or at least not at the same rate). Not to mention that Java … Continue reading →

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Savant dialect dependencies

Posted on January 16, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

I just finished a large refactoring of the Savant dialect code in order to add support for dialect dependencies. Since it is always ideal to break down pieces of functionality into logical units and then introduce well defined dependencies, I … Continue reading →

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Savant dialects versioning

Posted on January 16, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

I’m being kind hardcore with the separation of dialects in Savant (a dialect is a collection of plugins – for example there is a Java dialect with a compile plugin). The reason being is that I feel dialects should not … Continue reading →

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Blog content is back

Posted on January 16, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

I got all my old blog entries back up. The dates are totally incorrect, but that’s okay. I’ll fix those later.

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